BBC news 2011-06-21 加文本

词汇讲解：

1. dismiss vt. 自心中摒除, 不再考虑或谈论
例句：He dismissed the story as a rumour.
他把这个消息当做谣言而不予考虑。

2. pledge n. 保证; 誓言；誓约
例句：The government should fulfil its pledge.
政府应该履行其诺言。

3. sentence vt. 宣判; 判决
例句：The judge sentenced him to do hard labour.
法官判他服劳役。

4. trafficking n. 非法交易
例句：The government is trying to wipe out drug trafficking
政府竭力清除毒品买卖活动。

5. execute vt. 处决；执行, 实现; 使生效
例句：Never once did I doubt that I would be able to execute my plan.
我从未怀疑过我能执行自己的计划。

6. steal v. 偷
例句：Someone has stolen her purse when she was shopping.
她在购物时, 有人偷走了她的钱包。

7. confession n. 表白，承认;自首, 供认
例句：I’ve got a confession to make, I scraped your car when I was parking mine.
有件事我得向你讲出来, 我在停放汽车时把你的车子刮坏了。

8. withdraw v. (使)撤退[出]; （使）撤回, 撤离
例句：The general decided to withdraw his soldiers.
那位将军决定撤军。

9. secede vt. 脱离,退出
例句：We won’t allow Tibet to secede from China and become an independent nation.
我们决不允许西藏脱离中国独立。

10. discrimination n. 歧视
例句：He spoke out against racial discrimination.
他声言反对种族歧视。

11. suit n. 诉讼案件; 法律程序
例句：She is the plaintiff in the suit.
她是那件诉讼案中的原告。

12. implicat vt. 牵涉，涉及
例句：These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence.
这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。